[vdr] Re: VDR plugins - RFC - audio handling

[Karlheinz.Pischke@t-online.de (Karlheinz Pischke)]

"Dr. Werner Fink" wrote:
> 
> On Thu, May 23, 2002 at 06:07:08PM +0200, Klaus Schmidinger wrote:
> >
> > The question is: If _all_ audio data is presented to every audio device, will
> > the various devices be able to filter out exactly the kind of data they can
> > handle? If not, then we would need several PlayAudio() functions (or a PlayAudio()
> > with a controlling parameter) for the various types if audio data, and the player
> > would have to decide where to send each chunk of audio data. Personally I'd
> > prefer the first method.
> 
> Switching could be done once (maybe with runtime choice to the user) which
> could be handled by a pointer/reference PlayAudio() to
> 
>        (Norm|DD|DTS|MPEG|MP3)PlayAudio()
> 
> functions (eierlegende Wollmilchsau:).  This would save a lots of
> case switches on the type of audio stream during runtime (less cpu load).
> 
>         Werner

I thaught that the "PlayAudio()" function would be in a sense of an
overwritable
operator which calls a different function depending on it's input type.
like "*" (multiplication) calls different functions for "int" and
"float".
-- 

Forgive me if I'm on the wrong track. I'm definitely no OO- (nor a C++)
programmer.


Gruك

Karlheinz